First off – absolutely not. Martial arts is NOT the complete answer. There are many trained martial artists that get beaten all the time on the street. The difference is in how you actually train in martial arts.
If you learn crap techniques that have no realism or actual place in combat, then you are not learning and training combat.
If you don’t spar, fight, do situational training, then you are not training yourself for combat.
If you want to learn real combat, train real combat.
Second, martial arts training is a never ending pursuit of “becoming good”. The crappy thing about it is, the more you know, you more you know how much you suck.
What I mean by that is that the more knowledge you gain allows you to easily see more of your mistakes and areas that need improvement.
First off – absolutely not. Martial arts is NOT the complete answer. There are many trained martial artists that get beaten all the time on the street. The difference is in how you actually train in martial arts.
If you learn crap techniques that have no realism or actual place in combat, then you are not learning and training combat.
If you don’t spar, fight, do situational training, then you are not training yourself for combat.
If you want to learn real combat, train real combat.
Second, martial arts training is a never ending pursuit of “becoming good”. The crappy thing about it is, the more you know, you more you know how much you suck.
What I mean by that is that the more knowledge you gain allows you to easily see more of your mistakes and areas that need improvement.